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<strong>Michael</strong> <strong>Sol</strong> <strong>Collection</strong>
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CANON OF THE JEFFERSON RIVER, MONTANA<br />
-A VIEW TYPICAL OF THE MOUNTAIN SCENERY ON THE ELECTRIFIED LINE<br />
OF THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE &. ST PAUL RAILWAY ACROSS THE<br />
GREAT CONTINENTAL DIVIDE<br />
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The entire work cost approximately twelve million dollars and required three<br />
years' time to complete. The electrical energy is obtained from the mountain<br />
waterfalls along the route.<br />
WHAT THIS MEANS TO THE TRAVELER<br />
Of all the achievements in railroad transportation-and they have been manifold<br />
and splendid-electrification stands as the one supremely towering fact of a hundred<br />
years. The magnificent upbuilding of railroad value and worth has rested for over a<br />
century on the one foundation of steam locomotion. Electric locomotion means the<br />
change to a newer, better foundation, on which builders shall rear the structure of<br />
railroading to undreamed-of efficiency and comfort.<br />
The traveler is destined to reap great benefits from this stupendous achievement<br />
of the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &. St. Paul Railway, for with electrification has come a<br />
greater dispatch in train operation, a better maintenance of time schedules, the<br />
practical elimination of vexatious delays due to snow blockades and cold weather,<br />
Hydro-Electric Power Plant and Dam al Great Falls, Montana<br />
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smoother riding caused by the greater evenness of speed, enhanced comforts due to<br />
greater cleanliness, and a pronounced improvement of the view from car window<br />
and observation platform, owing to the absence of smoke, dirt and other undesirable<br />
incidents to steam travel.<br />
These advantages, added to the luxuriousness of the train equipment as exemplified<br />
in the superb transcontinental all-steel "Olympian" and "Columbian," the<br />
renowned personal service of the employes, the splendid physical condition of the<br />
line, and the extent and variety of the scenery, make the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &..<br />
St. Paul Railway more than ever the route of efficiency, comfort and charm. It is<br />
the shortest highway connecting the great Central \Vest with the North Pacific<br />
Centers. Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong>, 51. Paul, Minneapolis, Aberdeen, Miles City, Butte,<br />
Missoula, Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma are main line metropolitan marts, most<br />
conveniently reached by this short direct route of magnificent and matchless scenery.<br />
No other railway offers more interesting or pleasurable features, greater comfort and<br />
more efficient service. With the two splendid de luxe trains, "The Olympian" and<br />
"The Columbian," superb service is provided between Chicago and the Pacific North<br />
Coast and points intermediate.<br />
The World's Mi"htiest Electric Locomotive<br />
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Railway. Already results have been obtained that foreshadow large developments<br />
in steam road electrification throughout the world.<br />
POWER SUPPLY<br />
The electrical power employed to operate the entire 440 miles of electrified<br />
main line road, and the 160 miles of electrified spurs and yards of the Chicago,<br />
<strong>Milwaukee</strong> &, St. Paul Railway is obtained from the hydro-electric power plants of<br />
the Montana Power Company, whose main plant is located at Great Falls, Mont.<br />
The power is delivered to the railroad at fourteen sub-stations scattered along the route.<br />
Since the sub-stations receive the electricity in 100,000-volt alternating current,<br />
and since they must deliver it to locomotives in 3,000-volt direct current, each<br />
sub-station has two functions to perform-to reduce the voltage and to change<br />
the current from alternating to direct.<br />
The reduction of the voltage is accomplished as follows: The 100,000-volt<br />
alternating current is received through oil switches, is conveyed to the high-tension<br />
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current distributor made up of three lines of copper tubing, and there forms the<br />
source of power for the sub-station.<br />
From the current distributor the current is conducted through other oil switches<br />
to the transformers-entering at 100,000 volts and emerging at 2,300 volts.<br />
The voltage being reduced. the next step is to change from alternating to direct<br />
current. The current is conducted from the transformers through switches to the<br />
motor-generator sets and is the power employed to operate them.<br />
Motor generators, of which there are either two or three in each sub-station,<br />
consist of one alternating current motor driving two direct current generators. The<br />
motor is of the 60-cycle synchronous type, which means that the current changes<br />
sixty times each second. Each set generates a 1,500 or 2,000-volt direct current,<br />
and the two generators, being permanently connected in series, deliver a combined<br />
direct current of 3,000 volts, which is the highest voltage direct current adopted for<br />
railroad work in the world. By way of comparison -the direct current voltage<br />
for ordinary street railway work is only 550 volts.<br />
After passing through the control switches, this 3,000-volt direct current is<br />
conducted to the feeder and trolley lines, thence through the pantagraph for the<br />
The "OlYmpian," Electrically Operated, Starting on lIs Trip over the Rockies<br />
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BITTER ROOT MOUNTAINS<br />
Map showing the Electrified Districl<br />
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2-Summit 5-Piedmont<br />
3-Josephine 6-Janney<br />
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are used only in emergency and for stopping trains. Electric energy so generated<br />
can be turned into the trolley wire to assist other trains and reduce the amount of<br />
purchased electric current."<br />
In actual operation, at the crest of the grade, the helper locomotive is brought to<br />
the front of the train and coupled with the forward locomotive, both being operated<br />
as one. The train is then controlled on the down grade by regenerative braking.<br />
This system of braking provides maximum safety, eliminates wheel, brake-shoe<br />
and track wear and overheating; insures uniform speed on down grades, and returns<br />
electrical energy to sub-stations to be utilized by other trains-from 2S to S2 per cent<br />
of power is recovered by regenerative braking.<br />
MORE EFFICIENT OPERATION<br />
The electric locomotive can be operated for a thousand miles or more with<br />
only casual inspection, whereas the steam locomotive on mountain work requires<br />
considerable attention at every division point. This has made it possible to operate<br />
the electric locomotive over several old steam divisions, and practically eliminate<br />
roundhouses and yards at intermediate points.<br />
The "Olympian" Climbine the Continenlal Divide<br />
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The buildings are of modern, permanent, fireproof construction, with concrete<br />
foundations, brick super-structure and concrete roofs.<br />
SUMMARY<br />
Some of the advantages of the Electric Locomotive:<br />
Does away with fuel trains.<br />
Runs at an even speed.<br />
Has no tender, as it uses neither coal or water.<br />
Operates over several steam railway divisions.<br />
Is always ready to start simply by turning a hand-switch.<br />
Has no ashes to dump-no flues to clean-no boilers to inspect.<br />
Power to send it through the heaviest snowdrifts.<br />
Handles twice the load of the steam locomotive at greatly reduced cost.<br />
Is smokeless, noiseless, dirtless and "jerkless."<br />
Operates best in cold temperatures when steam locomotives have their<br />
greatest troubles.<br />
Is thoroughly dependable in all temperatures.<br />
Electrified Yards at Butte. Montana<br />
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1 Is easy on track and roadbed at all speeds.<br />
Its motors, when reversed on down grades, become generators which return from<br />
25 per cent to 52 per cent of the power used in climbing.<br />
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HISTORIC<br />
Sixty-five years ago the first train on the line that formed the nucleus of the<br />
Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &L St. Paul Railway made its maiden trip from <strong>Milwaukee</strong> to<br />
Waukesha, a distance of twenty miles.<br />
To-day the mileage of the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &.. St. Paul Railway is more than<br />
10,000 miles-self-owned-and with its allied lines serves people of eighteen states.<br />
Sixty years ago twelve of these states were not born -five of them do not even<br />
appear in the census tabulations of that time.<br />
The area of these states is approximately 15,000,000 square miles. More than onethird<br />
of the people of this country live, work, trade and prosper within their borders.<br />
Their 1,700,000 farms-their mines-their manufar-turing plants, produce annually<br />
about ten billion dollars of wealth, and in that territory nearly 1,000 cities and towns<br />
of commercial significance are on the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &.. St. Paul Railway.<br />
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In the Picturesque Missoula River Gorge, Montana<br />
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The greatest achievement next to the electrification was the inauguration, in 1911,<br />
of through service between Chicago and the North Pacific Coast, the fifth great<br />
transcontinental line to be built, and the shortest, with light curves and easy grades.<br />
The extension of this road from Mobridge, South Dakota, to Spokane, Seattle,<br />
Tacoma and other important centers of the Northwest Domain, is notable as well<br />
for the rapidity of its building as for its solidity. The line, 1,420 miles across the<br />
Rockies, Bitter Roots and Cascades, was completed in one day less than three years,<br />
the fastest rounding out of high-class mountain construction in railway history. The<br />
cost exceeded $200,000,000. As none of the errors of previous railway building<br />
were made, it will not be necessary in the future to re-Iocate the line.<br />
Unlike the earlier transcontinental roads, the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &u St. Paul<br />
Railway received no government grant either of money or lands. The builders were<br />
content to depend on the resources of the marvelously rich country penetrated by its<br />
lines, and results' have fully justified this faith in the success of the great enterprise.<br />
In addition to the new sections opened to settlement, many important industrial areas<br />
were tapped which supply a large and increasing traffic. From the opening day of<br />
its through service, the Pacific North Coast Line has proved to be in a class by itself,<br />
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the route that is different. Popular from the first, it has steadily grown in favor and<br />
is being more and more appreciated as filling a want felt by both the business public<br />
and by pleasure seekers.<br />
TWO SUPERB TRAINS<br />
Travelers are of one mind as to "The Olympian" and "The Columbian" being the<br />
most sumptuously appointed trains in the American railway service, which means<br />
there are none finer in the world. The equipment consists of observation-library<br />
cars, drawing-room, compartment standard sleeping cars, tourist sleeping cars, dining<br />
cars, coaches, baggage, mail and express cars-all steel. Each train is the other's<br />
counterpart and it seems impossible to improve on what this provides in the way of<br />
utility, comfort and pleasure.<br />
Only by the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &.., St. Paul Railway can the transcontinental<br />
trip between Chicago, Seattle and Tacoma be completely enjoyed without discomfort<br />
or the least fatigue, for no other route offers the advantages of the short, direct,<br />
mountain electrified line-a fact to be remembered by the traveler contemplating a<br />
trip to or from the Pacific Coast. From Lake Michigan to Puget Sound "TheTrail of the<br />
Kendall's Peak, in the Cascodes<br />
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Olympian" presents ever-changing views of pleasing variety and unequaled grandeur.<br />
The beauty of the majestic" Father of Waters" to the Twin Cities, the interesting<br />
expanse of the vast wheat areas and fertile prairies of the VVonder West, the<br />
exhilarating thrills of the Montana-Idaho Rockies, with their valley farms and towering<br />
forests, the unique "Shadowy" St. Joe Country, the marvels of the" Inland Empire,"<br />
and the Cascades where Mount Rainier-"easily King of all"-and other snowmantled<br />
sentinels, guard the Pacific, compose a galaxy of instructive and uplifting joys<br />
which no words can portray, and which, not seen, is a life-long regret.<br />
PROGRESS<br />
The electrification of the 440 miles of main line of the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &,<br />
St. Paul Railway over the Great Continental Divide is a long stride forward in Railroading,<br />
in Electricity and in Conservation of Resources. To produce enormous<br />
power from mountain waterfalls instead of from coal, to transmit this power in the<br />
form of electricity over great distances with but small loss in transmission, and to<br />
apply it so as to promote more efficient and economical operation, is an achievement<br />
of the Chicago, <strong>Milwaukee</strong> &, St. Paul Railway which has created a new epoch in<br />
railroad transportation and has erected another milestone in the world's progress.<br />
At fndian Henry's, in Mt. Rainier National Park, Wasbington<br />
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